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HOUSE  OF  REPRESENiTATIVES,  December  U,  1863.— Read 
.first  and  second  times,  referred  to   Special  Committee  on  Currency 
and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Perkins.] 


A.    BILL 

To  raise  a  tax  tor  the  support  of  the  Government. 

1  Skc HON  1 .     The   Congress  of  the   Confederate  States  of  America 

2  do  nmrt,  Tliat  all  treasury  notes  outstanding  on  the  first  of  Jan- 

3  uary    next,    shall    be   fundable    until    the    first   of  July,    1864  : 

4  Provided,     That,  such  of  said  notes  as  shall  not  be  funded  on  or 

5  before  the  day   specified,   shall   not  be   received  in   payment  of 

6  public  dues,  nor  be  fundable,  until  after  the  termination  of  the 


/     war. 


1  Sec.  2,   That  on  all  proiits,  realized  since  January,  1861,  from 

2  any  source  -syhatever,  there  shall  be  levied  a  rax  of  fifty  per  cent. 

3  in  addition  to  the  tax  imposed  by   the  act  of  April,  1S63,  pay- 

4  able   on   the   first   day   of   March,   1864:      Provided,  that  those 

5  person?  liable  to  this  t.ix,  who  <lo  not  pay   the  same,  before  the 

6  first  of  July,    18G  1,  shall   pay  ten  per  cent,  additional  for  each 

7  month  of  delay. 


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